Thursday, January 19, 2006

Unofficial Guide to the MSN Messenger Protocol

MSN Messenger Protocol - Home Page

"This website is intended to be an unofficial guide to the MSN Messenger protocol. It is written primarily for programmers that want to write software that uses the MSN Messenger protocol.

If you're an MSN Messenger or Windows Messenger user, and have a problem with the program on your computer, please look at the links page. This site won't be of any use to you.

If you're a developer who wants to learn how to interact with Microsoft software (for example, where Windows Messenger stores information in the registry), please see the links page for sites with information about this.

If you're a developer who wants to write your own MSN Messenger software, this site will be very helpful to you. However, you may want to look at the projects page before you start - you might be able to pick up a pre-existing project, or use libraries in parts of your program instead of re-inventing the wheel. If you choose to write your own software, you'll need a basic basic knowledge of network programming before reading this site, but nothing more. Some (optional) parts of the Messenger protocol require an understanding of other technologies like HTTP and XML, but you can implement the most important part of the protocol without these.

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This is a cool resource... It's a tiny bit old, being dated Dec 2003, but still a valuable site.

2 comments:

  1. Hello Greg, You posted a comment at http://msmvps.com/blogs/vipul/archive/2006/01/16/Windows_Live_Mail_WishList.aspx about Sort by option. Unfortunately I was not able to locate the Sort by option. Any pointers?

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  2. I've posted some quick screenshots here, http://coolthingoftheday.blogspot.com/2006/01/windows-live-mail-sorting-and.html

    I hope this helps...

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